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December 23, 2005

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Readers share favorite Christmas memories

St. Paul Hermitage residents Juanita and Jim McNulty talk with Benedictine Sister Mary Nicolette Etienne on Dec. 12 in the lounge at the sisters’ home for the elderly in Beech Grove. (Photo by Brandon A. Evans)Each year, Criterion readers write in with some of their favorite Christmas memories.

The brief stories can be funny, bittersweet or heartwarming -- or a little bit of each.

Listed below are links to the 14 Christmas memories that we received this year and that were published in our Dec. 23 print edition.

As you read the stories, be sure to think about sending in a story of your own next year.

2005 Christmas memories:

  • Wise men journey around house on way to Nativity
  • Ecuadorian woman recalls first Christmas in U.S.
  • Singing brought healing for vocalist on Christmas Eve
  • Mom finds Christmas spirit in her children’s happiness
  • Mother’s funeral was blessed event for family
  • Mother’s last Christmas was a lesson in the joy of giving
  • Boy’s example of service is a Christmas Store ‘miracle’
  • Latin, English Masses welcome Emmanuel
  • Christmas caroling is beloved tradition
  • Christmas in 1946 was fun with siblings
  • Adoptions precede memorable Christmas
  • Christmas means finding hay for the Nativity crib
  • Friend exemplifies the ‘spirit of Christmas’
  • Christmas in Tanzania is an interfaith celebration

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